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Everybody sad about the loss of Teen Vogue and independent left outlets in general can get their wallets ready to pre-order the next print issue of @pinko.online which will ship by the end of the year. It’s still here and it’s beautiful
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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An event in Berlin tonight with the illustrious Virgil Taylor at AGIT www.pinko.online/pinko-in-ber...
Tuesday, June 17 6 PM AGIT Berlin Join Pinko collective member Max Fox and artist and theorist Virgil Taylor for a reading and conversation on After Accountability. Nansenstraße 2, 12047 Berlin
June 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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If you’re in the uh Schengen zone come through
After Accountability events Folkets Hus Copenhagen June 14 San Serriffe Amsterdam June 15 AGIT Berlin June 17 The Scarlett Letters London June 20 Join Pinko editor Max Fox for readings and discussions at these bookstores in June. Copies of After Accountability will be available for sale.
June 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Don’t take it from me:
May 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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If you’re in Brooklyn tomorrow there will be a memorial reading for Joshua Clover at Word is Change at 7 pm
May 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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And I think that’s beautiful
Yo.Sex, passion, companionship, everything you're looking for is in this gay community- fuckass.life
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Down to the preparation of a network of domestic and extraterritorial concentration camps to "liberate" the concrete from the personifications of the abstract
A capitalist factory is a place where value is produced, which “unfortunately” has to take the form of the production of goods, of use-values. The concrete is produced as the necessary carrier of the abstract. The extermination camps were not a terrible version of such a factory but, rather, should be seen as its grotesque, Aryan, “anticapitalist” negation. Auschwitz was a factory to “destroy value,” that is, to destroy the personifications of the abstract. Its organization was that of a fiendish industrial process, the aim of which was to “liberate” the concrete from the abstract. The first step was to dehumanize, that is, to rip away the “mask” of humanity, of qualitative specificity, and reveal the Jews for what “they really are”—shadows, ciphers, numbered abstractions. The second step was to then eradicate that abstractness, to transform it into smoke, trying in the process to wrest away the last remnants of the concrete material “use-value”: clothes, gold, hair, soap.
April 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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"As an expression of the capital fetish its real thrust is forward. It emerges in the transition from liberal to bureaucratic capitalism and becomes virulent in a situation of structural crisis"
The hypostatization of the concrete and the identification of capital with the manifest abstract underlie a form of “anticapitalism” that seeks to overcome the existing social order from a standpoint which actually remains immanent to that order. Inasmuch as that standpoint is the concrete dimension, this ideology tends to point toward a more concrete and organized form of overt capitalist social synthesis. This form of “anticapitalism,” then, only appears to be looking backward with yearning. As an expression of the capital fetish its real thrust is forward. It emerges in the transition from liberal to bureaucratic capitalism and becomes virulent in a situation of structural crisis.
April 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Philly: Come to the Wooden Shoe today at 3 for a conversation on AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY with @estebanitos.bsky.social @genderhorizon.com and Malcolm Harris
Philly launch 3 pm wooden shoe Sunday 2/23. Pinko editors and contributors to after accountability in conversation with Malcolm Harris at the wooden shoe 704 south street
February 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Three events next weekend for After Accountability:
- NYC, 2/21 7:30 @ Poetry Project
- Baltimore, 2/22 6 PM @ @redemmas.org
- Philly, 2/23 3 PM @ the Wooden Shoe
February 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Decent turnout for short notice rally in south Philly
Crowd of people walking down a street
February 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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If you’re in Philly next week you must attend this town hall t.co/UMqLw4v63r
Writers against the war in Gaza present New Year Same Revolution. A town hall and fundraiser for Gaza. Jan 21 Calvary united methodist church, 6:30–9 PM
January 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Final copies are ready in the next few weeks so if you’d like to be first to get a review copy, ask for one now! @haymarketbooks.org t.co/xaJeB3hQbL
December 12, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Clips from the documentary I mention in the lede will be screening at the very Wilcox Center on Wednesday! Come through
December 1, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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Also for World AIDS day here is a picture of my cat
December 1, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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I mean this is just not something everyone can say
Still, his impact is widely felt. Kuromiya would call himself the “Forrest Gump of activism”, according to his biographer, Che Gossett, because he was improbably present at so many historical actions. Just to take the Civil Rights movement alone: on stage at the “March on Washington”, a hundred or so feet away from Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he met for the first time that night. Following the violence on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, he flew to Montgomery with money raised by Duke Ellington (apparently the musician’s first time funding any civil rights action) and was himself “clubbed down” so severely and egregiously that it was announced he had died. He and King drafted a statement for the sheriff to deliver, what King called “the very first time a southern sheriff had apologised for injuring a civil rights worker”. After King’s assassination, Kiyoshi travelled to Atlanta to take care of King’s two young sons during the week of the funeral.
December 1, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Did everyone know about this book or is it only for real dickheads
Paperback book titled The Man Who JAPED by Phillip K Dick
November 28, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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If you are in Philadelphia, come to this discussion today at 4 at Making Worlds on the future of the tenants movement! If your followers are in Philadelphia, repost !
Abolish rent November 24 @ 4 pm at Making Worlds Books
November 24, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Philly, this Sunday I’m moderating a conversation to launch @city.bsky.social’s ABOLISH RENT at Making Worlds with Sterling Johnson about the future of the tenant movement. Come through!
November 24 Philly at Making Worlds Books 4 PM 210 S 45th Street. ABOLISH RENT Book Launch! Tracy Rosenthal in conversation with Sterling Johnson, Philadelphia Housing Action, and Max Fox, Pinko Magazine
November 19, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Two events this weekend reading from this little book with my co-author in Philly and Brooklyn
November 13, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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If you’re in New York @pinkomagazine.bsky.social is launching our new issue next Thursday at Singers bar in Brooklyn! Readings and more events will follow pinko.online/pinko-3/issu...
March 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Tomorrow at Wendy’s Subway in BK, Pinko magazine is hosting a conversation on our new book AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY, in which we trace accountability practices to their movement origins.

7 PM @ 379 Bushwick ave, copies for sale, masks at the door, will be live-streamed pinko.online/after-accoun...
After accountability book launch at Wendy’s Subway Friday October 6 7:00 PM Discussion between pinko collective members and contributors: Kim Diehl, Esteban Kelly, Pilar Maschi
October 5, 2023 at 12:21 PM
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AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY: A CRITICAL GENEALOGY OF A CONCEPT gathers interviews with eight transformative justice practitioners, socialist labor organizers, incarcerated abolitionists, and activists on the left conducted by members of the Pinko collective. wendyssubway.com/publishing/t...
September 27, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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This is Evelyn Hooker in 1965:
September 22, 2023 at 11:43 PM
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Longtime ig followers may recognize I posted this exact dinner in 2021. However, I have since perfected its elements, in particular the shishito peppers which are possibly the best thing I’ve ever cooked myself
Plates of food on a metal table in a back yard Green shishito peppers with delicious seasonings in a bowl
September 20, 2023 at 11:51 PM